Lifestyle Patterns and Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancer, Respiratory Diseases, and Type 2 Diabetes: A Large-Scale Prospective Cohort Study

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Qian Zou, Rafael Ogaz-González, Gerton Lunter, Eva Corpeleijn, and Christian Ritz link lifestyle patterns to chronic disease in this two thousand twenty-five prospective cohort study. Lifestyle factors interact in tangled ways, so the authors derived patterns from baseline self-reports in the Dutch Lifelines cohort. Diet, activity, substance use, sleep, stress, and social ties were each graded healthy, middling, or unhealthy, then combined into patterns and summation scores. Disease-free adults were followed a median of eight years.

The analysis covered over one hundred thousand people per disease, with thousands of cases of diabetes, cancer, respiratory disease, and cardiovascular disease. Against the unhealthy pattern, both a balanced healthy pattern and a healthy-but-inactive pattern were protective. One pattern, unhealthy overall but without substance use, raised diabetes risk while lowering cancer risk. The study shows whole-lifestyle patterns predict disease in ways single habits cannot.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12736167